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Akbari: Writing, Speech, Dialogue, and 'Word Art' in a Global Context.

This presentation will follow the thread of platonic concepts of spoken and written language, including the form of the dialogue, with particular emphasis on twelfth-century neoplatonic accounts of scientific and philosophical knowledge. Juxtaposing these with the epistemologies of present-day Indigenous writers including the late Lee Maracle (Sto:lo) and Sylvia McAdam Saysewahum (Cree) enables the emergence of new, shared questions regarding the respective roles of writing and speech, as well as individual and collective knowledge. 

Chemla and Netz: Is there a global history of mathematics?

This will be a conversation  and friendly debate on the question of the title in conjunction with reflections on the contrary proposition that global history is the only kind of history that is genuinely coherent.